Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-01-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

soonest officer of the army.
SINCE the ranco-German war lis statues
nave been erected in France.
DIG. MARcANToNIo CANINI, Of Venice, can
speak ninety-three languages.
iHt nrst crematory in the South ia
ABOUT 10 be constructed near San Antonio.
Tex.
iHE man who writes Xmas for Christ
mas will probably refer TO next Fourth of
July as 4-1-'s1
of the $500 votes cast in the recent cleo
ton IN Washington Territory, 1900 were
cast by women.
CALIFORNIA claims the largest squash of
the season. IL was raised at Lompoe. and
weighs 25l pounds.
IESNEssEE's peanut crop this year is
worth 100000. The average yield per acre
Is forty-two bushels.
NEARLY 10000 doctors have been gradu-
ated from the various medical colleges dur
ing the last ten years.
| A HELENA, on. T.) man offers to bet one
hundred dollars that he can live for three
months on hay and oats.
The largest tree in California is i'm Tulare
county, and is $50 feet high, and the trunk
lbs feet in circumference.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, II he lives until next
March, Will be ninety years old. The old
est ruler of modern times.
MR.. CHARLES STEWART PARSELL is said TO
receive more letters and TO answer less
than any other man In Europe
IHE British Medical Journal reports a case
OF poisoning from the accidental swallow
ing OF piece of an anilne pencil.
WOMAN who recently died in New York
was found, upon postmortem examination.
TO have "A needle imbedded in her heart
WITHOUT miss a marksman broke IO5
glass balls at twenty-five yards rise, on n
wager, at Keyport, N. J., Q few days ago.
TELErHoSISa between New York and
Philadelphia Is now as easy as IL wee be-
tween points block apart a few months
ago.
ROBERT II. LINCOLN announces that his
political life is ended, and that the law
Will hereafter receive his undivided atten-
tion
The Harrison Memorial Association. of
Ohio, will ask the legislature TO appro-
pirate <5O,OO for statue of Old Tippe-
canoe.
RUSSIA has advertised for 100000 pairs
OF shoes. The Car evidently wants to
keep his family in footwear during the
sliding season.
"THE peace OF Europe" SAYS an ex-
"a r.
And even at that price Europe gets an un-
satisfactory article.
GEORGE SHEPARD, of Iowa, has lost three
wives by the accidental discharge, of his
revolver. The third time he was arrested
and held for murder.
The largest copper plates ever rolled i'm
Pittsburgh, Pa, were turned out few
days ago. They were circular in form, and
measured l16 inches in diameter.
AT Martinsville, Ind, there was born 10
the wife Of Edward Bishop girl baby
weighing two pounds The child is per.
fectly formed, is hale and hearty.
THERE are in the whole United States
about thirty or forty locomotive works,
turning out about 5000 locomotives a year
and employing about 1900 hands
The discovery Of a network OF so-cailed
canals on the planet Mars by SchiapareIla
several years ago has been confirmed
by observers both in England and Italy.
TnE Washington Monument is completed
excepting the terrace work at the base,
etc, and now the question is how 10 pre-
serve IL and protect IT from vandslismi
1T will astonish many people to learn that
French duel has resulted fatally.
Neither OF the contestants shot the other,
but one Of them went home and shot him
self.
AN experienced philosopher and sports
man observes that 10 is easier 20 lug a
heavy shotgun ten hours through an i'm
penetrable swamp than TO put up clothes
line.
AN Australian has invented an cleo
tricsl machine-gun, which he claims is
capable Of firing 100 rounds every few sec
onds from any position and In any direc
ton.
New YORK CITY has a daily newspaper
printed In the Hebrew language and in
Hebrew characters, and called the Daiiy
Gazette. There are only two like IL in the
world.
MIDDLE Tennessee is 20 organize an anti
horse thief association and offer a reward
Of 800 for every animal stolen. There are
more horses stolen in that section now
than at any time since the war
JOE DgNOSEs, fifteen years old, and
black, went down % the landing at Jeffer-
sonville, KY, 70 see q steamboat 20 out.
As he stood looking she blew her whistle
viciously, and Immediately the boy lost tho
power Of speech and hasn't spoken since.
AN Englishman who lately visited the
cemetery at Lisbon, whore Fielding il
buried, reports that the great novelist's
grave Is uncared for and Overgrown and
the inscription in some places almost OBJ
liberated.
GAvARHE, the famous Spanish tenor, sir
teen years ago received eighty cents an
evening for singing in a Madrid concert
hall. He recently made contract 70 sing
nifty nights in Italian opera, for which he
will receive $1,000
SUCH is the rapid growth Of population
in London, particularly IN the east, that II
IL stated on good authority that 5000 per
sons are now being added yearly 70 a pop
ulation already numbering 100000.
PHFLADELPHu teachers are 80 poorly
paid that IL must have been one Of their
representatives who responded % the
toast. 'Iong Live our School Teachersf''
with the heartfelt reply "What ont"
IT ia said that in Campbell County, Oak,
an intelligent pointer dog run by the lndig-
nant citizens on an independent ticket
lacked only three votes OF being elected
District Attorney.
II New York City, one evening recently,
wns given a dinner that cost S75 per plate.
Nine guests sat down % the feast Hand
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